About UCSDPlans
UCSDPlans puts what UC San Diego publishes about its courses in one place: how every class has actually graded since 2015, who is teaching it this term and how students rate them, where and when each section meets, how full it is, and which requirements it counts toward. Anyone can browse it. Signing in with a UCSD Google account adds the Planner — this term’s week and all four years — your Academic History, and student housing.
Who makes it
UCSDPlans is built and run by @hereswaynex. Found a mistake in a number, or want something added? Get in touch.
Where the numbers come from
Grades, courses, sections, seats and the university requirements come from UC San Diego’s own publications. Two things do not yet: the college GE lists and the RateMyProfessors scores.
- UCSD Associated Students Instructor Grade Archive
Grade distributions, one per instructor per term.
- UCSD General Catalog
Every course that exists, its units, description and prerequisites, and the courses that satisfy American History & Institutions (AHI).
- UC San Diego Class Planner
This term's sections, rooms, seats and waitlists.
- UCSD Academic Senate — Diversity, Equity & Inclusion approved courses
Which courses count for the campus DEI requirement.
- College GE lists (community-compiled)
Each college's approved GE courses, as compiled by the ucsd-easy-a-radar project rather than taken from the colleges directly. Your college's own list is the authority.
- RateMyProfessors (via the same project)
Each instructor's overall rating, difficulty and would-take-again share. Only the scores are shown here; the reviews themselves stay on RateMyProfessors.
How the letter grade is worked out
The letter on a course is not a grade anyone received. For each course we take every published grade record (one per instructor per term), average their GPAs weighted by the number of terms each instructor taught it, and round that average to the nearest official UCSD grade point: 3.85+ shows A, 3.50+ A−, 3.15+ B+, 2.85+ B, 2.50+ B−, 2.15+ C+, 1.85+ C, 1.50+ C−, and D or F below that.
Terms the archive publishes without a GPA — fully pass/no-pass offerings, sections too small to report — are left out of that average rather than counted as zeros. Weighting counts terms taught rather than students enrolled, so an instructor with many small sections pulls the average further than one with a couple of large lectures. A professor’s letter applies the same rule to their own records.
Each letter always has the same colour: A dark green, A− green, B+ amber, B and B− orange, C+ and below red. Sorting by best grades orders courses by that same average, highest first. An amber dot means a single term of history stands behind the letter, and a dash means no published history at all.
What is public, and what is yours
Browsing courses, departments, professors and GEs needs no account. Your Planner, starred courses, your own instructor ratings and your Academic History are saved to your UCSD account and shown only to you. Housing is for signed-in UCSD students only, so a lister’s place and contact details are never public.